MTG: Arena

Jackie Treehorn said:

Interest in this thread has really died it seems like. I barely turn it on and play a handful of games anymore about once a week. It seems blah.

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I get on to complete a daily and try and get the first 4 wins of the day (since they are 100g each). After that I log off, game needs more formats and those draft pods.

Everyone on aggro this MCQ. 3-1 so far on Temur Rec. Smashed 2 cat decks and split with 2 mono red decks. Breakfast then more Uro and explosions.

Finished 5-2. 2-0 vs r/b cats, 1-0 vs bant ramp, 1-0 vs Clover, 1-2 vs mono red. Feels bad.

Haven't been able to enter control mode today. Checked to make sure it wasn't remapped and it's not. What the actual fuck, losing games because commands don't work.

So made a quick monoblue brawl deck around Thasa. It's nothing special but i went 3-0. Never won on damage: they scoop with the first counter that hits.

I named it "Blue Brawlls"

It inspired me to make this(I almost never play blue-counter; I can't fucking stand counter spells):

I have never understood how people get so worked up about having their stuff countered, but are totally fine when 3 of their vanilla trashcan creatures get wrathed.

Sterling said:

I have never understood how people get so worked up about having their stuff countered, but are totally fine when 3 of their vanilla trashcan creatures get wrathed.

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I think it’s when you get to a point where when you’ve been countered enough in a game/day

also I think countering is basically denying you participating in the game. Your stuff never even has a chance to touch the board

At least against targeted/mass removal, you get to play your stuff

I may have mentioned it before but it’s almost like, and this is an extreme generalization:

Black: I use discard, removal and risk for power to play

Red: I use burn and cheap creatures to play

Green: I use ramp and big creatures to play

White: I use cheap creatures and enchantments to play

Blue: I prevent my opponents from playing

Jesus Christ, Wizards: Enough with the fucking mirror matches in random play already.

The slow play is a major boner killer.

Jackie Treehorn said:

Yeah...I’m a grown ass man, I have a great job, social life, I’m a normal dude, I’m not a sperg, nor do I have anger issues. But for *whatever reason*, I can’t explain it, playing Arena sometimes tilts the fuck out of me when when perpetually faced with slow players, jackassed flash / counter decks, etc. It’s like being 12 years old again and slamming the fuck out of my NES controllers. Literally no other game in probably 20 years has pissed me off to the extent this game can. So that’s why I uninstalled it, for my own dignity. Ha.

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this may be a repost, but fuck it; it’s my meme:

I would expect that to be extremely rare in ranked and there's still a decent amount of slow play. Especially in unranked and low ranked you'll get people that aren't good with the UI and have to tank a lot because they're not very good at the game. being an online game that doesn't require high APM or whatever you'll also just get distracted people because either they're eating, talking to someone, or watching a movie or something while they're playing.

So if there is a silver lining to all of this quarantine and Arena giving free stuff out:

I'm really starting to appreciate the Brawl format more and more. Seems like you get matched up to a more wider variety of deck types. Lots of originality in deck making although I have run into several try-hards that made Field of the Dead net decks. Unfortunately, if you do play against blue, it's only a matter of time before Agent of Treachery hits the board.

On the other hand, I've played several blue decks where that didnt happen, so luck does factor, but it doesnt feel as bad as casual standard play for some reason. Prob because, again, you don't constantly get mirror matched/matched with your deck's weakness.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand just like an abusive partner, Arena is giving me the backhand again.

If anyone plays the new challenger deck event, do NOT pick Allied Fires: I got ass raped 10 times in a row. Every deck is faster than Fires, you will NEVER have a chance to catch up.

Every opponent I've played also seems to draw/top deck perfect hands to boot. Played against the golgari adventure deck and the s.o.b. got edgewall innkeeper, lovestruck beast, murderous rider and THREE MOTHERFUCKING Lucky Clovers!! Like wtf Wizards?! I won't even go into what the mono-red deck is capable of doing by turn 4.

Oh and you'll never beat the simic deck: much faster than Fires, plus you get the benefit of seeing this once you have the mana to do anything. That or the frilled mystic counter.

And it wouldnt be so bad if it weren't for the fact that Fires, despite being part blue, has NO MOTHERFUCKING COUNTERSPELLS OF ITS OWN!

In a game of rock, paper, scissors, Fires is Swiss cheese bullshit.

end of rant.

yeah don't pick Fires

Also, just to add insult to insult, most counterspells have artwork thats just annoying, like Quench and its ass-licking smirk.

I played the Fires deck and got my 2 wins in 2 games that weren't even close. Mono Red and the G/B adventure deck both didn't handle sweepers + walkers very well. Counters also don't play well with the actual Fires of Invention card, so you'd only get to use them before casting it. having 5 sweepers and being able to wish for more, Sarkhan triggers and spot removal it's probably the best deck to play against those 2 decks. I didn't play against it, but I'd guess it's pretty soft to the flash deck. Which as it turns out is sort of how these archetypes pan out in standard with the fully fleshed out forms of these decks.

Vast majority of brawl decks I have faced have been Heliod, Torbran, Uro, Ayara/Syr Konrad, Kaalia and Niv-Mizzet. (In that order)

Standard brawl is terrible.

Sterling said:

I played the Fires deck and got my 2 wins in 2 games that weren't even close. Mono Red and the G/B adventure deck both didn't handle sweepers + walkers very well. Counters also don't play well with the actual Fires of Invention card, so you'd only get to use them before casting it. having 5 sweepers and being able to wish for more, Sarkhan triggers and spot removal it's probably the best deck to play against those 2 decks. I didn't play against it, but I'd guess it's pretty soft to the flash deck. Which as it turns out is sort of how these archetypes pan out in standard with the fully fleshed out forms of these decks.

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yeah I switched to the flash deck and got two wins in a row, curb stomping fires